Gleam First Impressions: Parsing Old AIM Logs

The author uses the relatively new functional programming language Gleam to parse their old AOL Instant Messenger logs from two decades ago. The post details their learning process, covering command-line argument handling, compilation, testing, and functional programming techniques like pattern matching and pipeline operators. The author shares their positive experiences with Gleam's elegant pipeline syntax, but also points out shortcomings such as its limited standard library and slightly awkward error handling.